All things offseason discussion part II

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Originally Posted by SirLK26

So which is better:

A: to slightly overpay a player whose play has suggested he can put up elite stats but hasn't yet been given an opportunity by the coaches to do so, or...

B: let said player walk, keeping in mind there are no viable options to replace him.

i do not agree with your summation with A.

but, to speak to the spirit of your post...

if the options are overpay for a guy because you have no other option, or have a system that allows you to let players walk when they want more than your worth.... give me the later every day of the week.

the fact that the redskins have had a history of being in the former and (to me) seem to be trying to get away from that and become a team that has young talent they groom, does not mean we should abandon the current movement to go back to the old way of doing business because... well... this year we just really need to do it that old way because we have this really good list of justifications...

no. enough with the crappy business model. i get that it sells jerseys and puts butts in seats but have we honestly not had enough of that being the #1 driver of decisions?

it seems to me that the best interest of the organization is to move away from over paying a few guys and move to the other side of the spectrum. i fail to see how overpaying for orakpo does anything other than continue down a path we've been going down since 1999.

a path i thought everyone agreed was a dead end and what took a once proud franchise and made it an annual laughing stock.